Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@AlliFlowers I had a deep fried snickers bar once. It tasted like diabetes.

A few neat recipes in here but also a good introductory narrative. But deep fried gefilte fish croquets?! Sign me the F up, חברים

"[I]n every place, oil and dairy products are recognized as symbolic, traditional #Chanukah #foods related to #Jewish #history and redemption. Oil emphasizes the miracle of the cruse found in the Holy Temple, which burned for eight days when there was only enough for a single day.

Dairy food products commemorate the heroism of Judith. She fed the enemy general Holofernes large quantities of salty cheese, washed down with wine, perhaps the specialties of the area. He fell into a drunken stupor, Judith killed him, the enemy army fled, and the #Jews were saved."

https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/chanukah-treats-think-oil-but-think-again,24418

Republicans cannot govern. This is true no matter how many times we are dumb enough to run this experiment. Republicans no longer build. They do not create. They bulldoze, destroy, burn, rape and pillage, they liquidate divisions to momentarily maximize shareholder value and then they cash out. They have no interest beyond momentary profit.

They cannot govern because good government is utterly at odds with their miserable ideology of greed, fear, and destruction.

It's just that simple.

I keep seeing that Musk had a hand in torpedoing the government funding agreement.

WTF?

He isn't an elected official or even an *un*elected one. (And Rump isn't prez yet, but we have him *telling* Congress what to do. So much for the balance of powers, amirite?)

I wake up every morning feeling like I've dropped through some rabbit hole into a truly warped alternate reality.

I do not like it here.

13 #nazis who participated in the 2020 criminal electors scheme to reverse #TFG loss in 2020 will cast real Electoral College votes for #TFG

Some are still facing felony charges from their actions 4 years ago. #crime #criminal #criminals #felon #illegal #republicans #maga #gop

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5225588/trump-electoral-college-vote-nevada-fake-electors-michigan

Theists:
A god surely could make its presence and wishes known easily, without need for humans to interpret.

______________________
#atheism #faith #god

A state judge in Montana rules that discrimination based in transgender status IS discrimination based on sex.

But the trial over changing the sex designation on birth certificates and driver’s licenses continues.

https://apnews.com/article/montana-transgender-sex-documents-bf2a09d005ca3e6750e428d79a2969e9

#Discrimination #Montana #Trans

Judge Denies #Trump’s Bid to Throw Out #Criminal Conviction Over Immunity Ruling

Justice Juan M. #Merchan thwarted one of several attempts by Donald J. Trump to clear his record of 34 felonies before returning to the White House.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/nyregion/trump-immunity-criminal-case.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

With the polio vaccine in the news, I want to tell some of my mom's story:

My mom got polio when she was a kid living in southern California, pre-vaccine. She survived it, but it put her in a wheelchair for a while, then leg braces. She was actually a literal poster child for the Polio vaccine: they used her picture on some March of Dimes posters.

But this was not a thing that just affected her for a while, and then she was better. As a result of having Polio, her right leg is slightly shorter than her left. For her entire life, she's had to have special lifts put into her right shoe. When she drives, she uses her left foot for the brake pedal because she's concerned that her right leg might not be strong enough to stomp on the brake hard if needed. She has always been limited in how long and far she can walk: I remember many times on family vacations where the rest of us would go off to do something and she'd have to sit it out because she knew she just couldn't do that much walking.

Now that she's elderly, a lifetime of this is catching up: her bones, joints, ligaments, tendons are all messed up from having a weak leg and an unbalanced gait. Her mobility is declining much faster than it should be, even for someone of her age. She had to have her ankle fused because of the constant pain it was causing.

Polio didn't ruin her life, but it has stolen it in slices. Times she couldn't keep up with her kids, times she was just too tired to be able to stay on her feet, chronic pain, losing the ability to climb stairs in her own house as she ages.

Vaccination is the greatest public health success humanity has ever produced, and we forget this only at our own peril.

#Ukraine sends humanitarian security and food aid to #Syria

"For Ukraine, this is important: the calmer the situation in such regions, the more actively the world can help us achieve peace.

It is precisely for this reason that #Moscow tries so hard to ignite more conflicts and wars in various parts of the world, fueling instability and adding to global challenges."

Exactly

Pay attention world

#Russia

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